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COMMUNISM AND DICTATORSHIP
cannot make it disappear; when we become conscious of it we wish
to act. This is why, in my opinion, the Russian revolution, as well
as the radical communists in every country, will daily grow more
powerful and numerous and more tightly organized. This is the natural
result. This is the third argument. . . .
There is a further point pertaining to my doubts about anarchism.
My argument pertains not merely to the impossibility of a society
without power or organization. I should like to mention only the
difficulties in the way of the establishment of such form of society
and of its final attainment. . . . For all the reasons just stated, my
present viewpoint on absolute liberalism, anarchism, and even de-
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mocracy is that these things are fine in theory, but not feasible in
practice. . . .
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